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You might have that mixed up, as most of those leaks pertained to foreign intelligence gathering. The aspect involving Americans was the telephone metadata prog

You might have that mixed up, as most of those leaks pertained to foreign intelligence gathering. The aspect involving Americans was the telephone metadata program, and a bill did indeed get passed as a result to fix that.

DennisP 10y ago
"Most" is correct, but some of the other reported programs sweep up large numbers of Americans. Examples: "The National Security Agency is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the world, many of them belonging to Americans" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-collects-millions-of-e-mail-address-books-globally/2013/10/14/8e58b5be-34f9-11e3-80c6-7e6dd8d22d8f_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-c... "NSA was using its metadata troves to build profiles of US citizens' social connections, associations and in some cases location" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/30/nsa-americans-metadata-year-documents https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/30/nsa-americans-... "The N.S.A. is not just intercepting the communications of Americans who are in direct contact with foreigners targeted overseas, a practice that government officials have openly acknowledged. It is also casting a far wider net for people who cite information linked to those foreigners" http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/08/us/broader-sifting-of-data-abroad-is-seen-by-nsa.html?hp http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/08/us/broader-sifting-of-data...